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Panic on the streets of Russia: Worried shoppers queue to panic-buy big-ticket items amid fears
UK Daily Mail ^ | Decemeber 17, 2014 | Chris Pleasance

Posted on 12/17/2014 8:33:35 AM PST by C19fan

Russia shoppers have been panic-buying everything from cars to flat pack furniture today after stores warned of price hikes at the weekend following a sharp fall in the value of the rouble. Several Ikea stores have been forced to close after the company warned its prices will go up from tomorrow, while cars and home appliances have been bought in record numbers. The rouble has slid 15 per cent in just two days, hitting an all-time low of 80 to the dollar at one point yesterday, prompting fears of a run on Russian banks.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Russia
KEYWORDS: ruble; russia
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To: SaxxonWoods

How can you predict our financial future when you don’t know who the POTUS will be in 2017?

Hell, with this timid Congress, Obama might just crown himself king or emperor or president in perpetuity.

In today’s world you must also include the possibility or the likelihood of another 9/11 as part of your prediction.


41 posted on 12/17/2014 10:06:50 AM PST by 353FMG
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To: Bon mots
Some people aren't intimidated by bears.




42 posted on 12/17/2014 10:07:09 AM PST by Bratch
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To: 3boysdad

More specifically, this is how Ezekiel 38 gets launched....


43 posted on 12/17/2014 10:09:37 AM PST by Mom MD
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To: BfloGuy

I know it is, the goon squad was all saying it would stop being so. They were wrong. I still ads for this crap.


44 posted on 12/17/2014 10:27:03 AM PST by Minsc
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To: McGruff

McCain is President?


45 posted on 12/17/2014 10:31:33 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: McGruff

No, he was talking about Putin, that is why you had to react.


46 posted on 12/17/2014 10:43:18 AM PST by ansel12
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To: C19fan

This is why oil is 58 dollars a barrel instead of 100. This is about punishing Putin for being in Ukraine.


47 posted on 12/17/2014 10:46:11 AM PST by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: Mr. K; elhombrelibre
only until she makes it here stateside...

If she's cute enough, it might be worth while to retire to Russia, where your $-denominated retirement funds might go very far.

48 posted on 12/17/2014 10:47:19 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.b>)
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To: kjam22
This is about punishing Putin for being in Ukraine.

See post #13. It's hard for me to believe that Obama cares enough or is smart enough to take such action. But it was one of the first punitive actions I thought about when Russia invaded Crimea.
49 posted on 12/17/2014 10:57:40 AM PST by mmichaels1970
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To: C19fan

Well, there’s only one thing left to do - old Putin needs to take off his shirt again for another macho-man photo-op for the Russian tabloids. Rally around your Leader, idiots! Putin strong like bear!


50 posted on 12/17/2014 10:58:26 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: mmichaels1970

Yep... I posted before I saw your post #13. I don’t believe its Obama that has made this call. I don’t believe he really makes any calls about anything. I think he reads the teleprompter and is a figure head for the left wing base that is running his administration. But, I do believe this is a geo-political event that is driving the price of oil.... and not the supply and demand story that we’ve been told.


51 posted on 12/17/2014 10:59:42 AM PST by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: elhombrelibre

it’s not our debt . i didn’t borrow trillions upon trillions of dollars. it’s your dictator Obama that borrowed trillions $ more than all other presidents combined. anyone with even a brain cell can realize that this massive Obama debt is causing the world economy to collapse and many countries are already including the USA ,witness the falling gasoline prices. your obama the bucks stops with this cretin


52 posted on 12/17/2014 12:37:09 PM PST by Democrat_media (The media is the problem. reporters are just democrat political activists posing as reporters)
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To: ansel12

Sometimes the pro-Kremlin spin here on FR isn’t very good.


53 posted on 12/17/2014 1:19:21 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Democrat_media

Are you taking any prescription medications? Or is your writing so poor because English is a foreign language for you? Any way, get well soon.


54 posted on 12/17/2014 1:23:20 PM PST by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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